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Soul Dog: Big Island Dog Rescue
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 8 2026
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Twenty years ago, Jasmine Sinclair found a starving dog tied to a dumpster in the rain. She made a promise that night-one day, she would build a place where no dog would ever be abandoned again.
Now, on a windswept piece of land on Hawaii's Big Island, that promise becomes Dixie's Place: a sanctuary where broken dogs learn to trust and the humans who care for them discover that healing flows both ways.
Captain, the steady shepherd mix, teaches every newcomer that safety is possible. Rosie's signature bay marks time like a heartbeat, calling the pack to sing at sunset. Mango, a pit bull so traumatized by her past that she won't let anyone touch her, begins a transformation that will take over a year-and change everyone around her. And there are dozens more: dogs rescued from hoarding houses, pulled from hurricane evacuations, found wandering highways, or surrendered when their owners died. Each one carries scars. Each one finds their way back to wholeness through patience, love, and the quiet miracle of second chances.
But building a sanctuary means facing heartbreak alongside triumph. It means wild pigs crashing through fences at midnight and hurricanes bearing down on fragile lives. It means confronting the darkest corners of animal cruelty and still choosing hope. It means loving creatures whose time is shorter than your own-and learning to let them go when their forever families finally find them.
As the seasons turn, Jasmine discovers that Dixie's Place isn't just saving dogs. It's creating a community: volunteers who find purpose, adopters whose lives are transformed, and a husband who finally understands why this work matters when a grieving Rottweiler chooses him as his person.
And through it all, the spirit of Dixie-the dog who started everything-watches over the sanctuary she inspired, sending signs in sunsets and stars.
SOUL DOG is a novel about the promises we make to the animals who save us, and the lifetime we spend keeping them. It's about grief that transforms into purpose, love that outlasts death, and the extraordinary things that happen when we open our hearts to creatures who need us.
For anyone who has ever loved a dog. For anyone who has ever lost one. For anyone who believes that rescue goes both ways.
Some promises take a lifetime to keep. Some dogs change everything.
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